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The Kingdom of Sodarnia

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The Kingdom of Sodarnia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Prime-Minister Jónas Rasmussen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.229 billion Sodarnians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Volburg. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Sodarnian economy, worth 189 trillion Sordanian Slotts a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 85,047 Sordanian Slotts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prime-Minister Jónas Rasmussen is strangely popular with male politicians' wives, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, the cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, and hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sodarnia's national animal is the Haisköl Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Sodarnia is ranked 172,129^th in the world and 937^th in Europe for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.

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